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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rove" data-source="post: 266962" data-attributes="member: 100">Perhaps the writers should have taken the slow burn approach rather than signing Christopher to one off season deal. The way Christopher talks in some old interviews he was expecting a longer stint. Maybe the writers should have introduced Christopher Atkins as Mickey Trotter rather than Timothy Patrick Murphy. More or less the Mickey Trotter story remains the same but with some minor tweaks.Lucy feels an instant attraction to Mickey but is told by Ray to ease off...still the attraction is there. Sue Ellen of course is fighting her demons and spends more and more time horse riding which brings her in contact with Mickey. As they spend more time together Mickey develops a crush on Sue Ellen but dares not show it. Then one fateful, hot, steamy night at Southfork, Sue Ellen and JR have another blistering row. He grabs his coat and heads to Dallas. Sue Ellen decides to go for a walk around Southfork, bottle in hand. She stumbles upon Mickey in the stables. Tormented by the fact JR has rejected her again she sets her eyes on Mickey.I would have made Sue Ellen the aggressor in this scenario as it fits with her neurotic personality. Mickey is left feeling hurt and used when later Sue Ellen rejects his advances....and we all know with a flick of the switch how bitchy Sue Ellen can turn. Mickey feeling rejected turns to Lucy where a romance begins.So more or less the following story remains the same. JR and Sue Ellen have another blistering row. She grabs the car keys and Lucy yells at Mickey to stop her.This whole Sue Ellen/Peter story might have worked if Christopher was signed to a 2 year contract and the story was given its due rather than the producers seeing it as stunt casting and plot driven. Dallas was brilliant at story-telling because when the usual cliff-hanger/pay off came around it meant something to the viewer.</blockquote>

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